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I looked up the Open Technology Fund on Wikipedia and it has no relation to the CIA. well, except that its parent agency (Radio Free Asia) is part of the US government like the CIA is. they don't seem to work together at all, and they're under the purview of two different branches of government

besides, as other commenters have said, they're open source and they've been audited. anyone can build the client themselves (with any potential backdoors removed) and set up their own server. would the CIA allow for that?

nothing better than Signal

Signal was developed with financial backing by the CIA, so do with that information what you will.

source?

NPR News is probably what you're looking for. sports and celebrity stuff is relegated to the Culture section, which is its own separate thing (although there are a couple of music stories that seem to have been misplaced). here is the RSS feed for the News section: https://feeds.npr.org/1001/rss.xml

true. gotta get one of those desks you see at schools, with the hole in the corner and the plastic cover

the setup actually isn't bad at all. using a soundbar is a nice touch. i would do something about the clutter though; you want a nice clean desk for gaming sessions. too bad we can't see the chair, you need something like an office chair for maximum comfort and not a gaming chair, as they actually aren't very good for your back

never doubt the elegance of good semantic HTML and a few lines of classless CSS

to spite entropy

the Republican Party checks off almost all of these.

• powerful and continuing nationalism: MAGA and America First
• disdain for human rights: the ongoing trans genocide and their support for the Palestinian genocide
• identification of enemies as an unifying cause: the "woke" fearmongering
• supremacy of the military: Trump has waffled between praising the military and calling them "losers", so not quite yet
• rampant sexism: reinforcement of traditional gender roles and the "tradwife" movement
• controlled mass media: inside their sphere, yeah. Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN breathlessly hang on to every word Republican figures say
• obsession with national security: bOrdEr WAlL!
• religion and government intertwined: anti-abortion policies universally have religious justifications for them, plus several Republicans have said (and seem to sincerely believe) that Trump was ordained by Jesus
• corporate power protected: corporate tax cuts and the withering of regulatory agencies under Republican leadership
• labor power suppressed: the logical corollary to the above
• disdain for intellectuals and the arts: distrust of experts and scientific endeavors
• obsession with crime and punishment: running on being "hard on crime"
• rampant cronyism and corruption: Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito's undeclared trips from Republican donors are likely just the tip of the iceberg
• fraudulent elections: not yet, and hopefully never 🤞

he absolutely carried Stargate Atlantis, it was weird to see him in Aquaman

Aquaman. the visual effects were ridiculous, the characters were one-dimensional, the soundtrack was...something, and the overall tone was that of a testosterone firehose to the face. i said the eight deadly words about halfway through, and i was thoroughly bored out of my mind despite action scene after action scene after action scene...the only reason why i didn't just get up and leave was because i was watching with a group

he's gonna stiff the contractors? great, now all his teleprompters are going to be broken